Dr. Jane Jenkins
How New Brunswickers marked Christmas 1918 in the midst of a deadly Influenza Pandemic will be the focus of the York Sunbury Historical Society’s December virtual speaker series featuring historian Dr. Jane Jenkins.
Carolling in a Crisis: Christmas in New Brunswick during the 1918 Influenza Epidemic will be held via ZOOM at 7 pm on Thursday, December 10, 2020. This FREE presentation will be recorded and made available online after the event.
Dr. Jane Jenkins is an historian of science currently writing a book about the experience of the 1918 influenza epidemic in New Brunswick and the establishment of the province’s first Department of Health.
Christmas in 1918 New Brunswick was a somber occasion. Although the so-called “war to end all wars” had staggered to its bloody end just a month earlier, people were still recovering from the home-front war effort as well as the heart-breaking deaths of loved ones who would never return from overseas.
New Brunswickers were also facing a new and different kind of war against the deadly influenza pandemic that had swept into the province in October 1918. By December, as influenza deaths increased, Christmas brought little cheer. This talk recounts the overall impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on New Brunswick (especially at Christmas) and how the epidemic motivated public health reform.
Carolling in a Crisis: Christmas in New Brunswick during the 1918 Influenza Epidemic provides a vivid context for the Pandemic Christmas the world will celebrate in 2020.
Carolling in a Crisis: Christmas in New Brunswick during the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
Contact us for the ZOOM Link at frederictonregionmuseum@gmail.com or by phone at 506-455-6041.
For further information:
Melynda Jarratt, Executive Director, Fredericton Region Museum
Email: frederictonregionmuseum@gmail.com
Web: www.FrederictonRegionMuseum.com
Tel: 506-455-6041
ZOOM Resources guide below:
You can download Zoom HERE
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You can find information about installing Zoom HERE
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/sections/200704559-Installation
HERE is a YouTube link about how to download and install Zoom on a PC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVu9BILRkww
HERE are resources about how to join a Zoom meeting
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-Joining-a-meeting
Hi, I am interested in watching this video presentation online. Do you have a link for it yet? Thanks, Karen
Hi Karen, see below, it’s in the detailed list of all the presentations in the 2021-2022 and 2020-2021 York Sunbury Historical Society Speakers Series on our YouTube Channel!
2021-2022 Speaker Series
October 21, 2021
Jordyn Bailey, Ripples Internment Camp 1940-45
https://youtu.be/R1q-05jsB0A
November 4, 2021
Dianne Kelly, Asleep in the Deep: Nursing Sister Anna Stamers & The First World War
https://youtu.be/1n4PStap5BY
December 8, 2021
Hon. Graydon Nicholas, The Rightful Place of Indigenous Veterans
https://youtu.be/tLLDN2Mn55Y
February 17, 2022
Manny McIntyre: Elite Athlete and Sports Pioneer
https://youtu.be/l90ALUaFmYY
2020-2021 Speaker Series
November 12, 2020
Ortona: Battle of the Gully – Capt. David Hughes
https://youtu.be/cO_1WkfEv7U
November 19, 2020
The Urban Battle For Ortona – Major Jayson Geroux
https://youtu.be/pAc2l1WHDlw
December 11, 2020
Carolling in a Crisis – Jane Jenkins
https://youtu.be/9ZwKeYAu5Xg
January 21, 2021
Early NB Scientists and Innovation by Richard Yeomans PhD Candidate UNB
https://youtu.be/NksuS61YP-U
February 14, 2021
Abraham Beverly Walker: First Canadian-Born Black Lawyer by Peter LIttle
https://youtu.be/wu_JN5VQNEY
February 25, 2021
Fredericton’s Black Soldiers in the First World War: Katelyn Stieva, PhD Candidate UNB
https://youtu.be/MwgnQOW9mnE
March 18, 2021
Dr. Nicholas Tracy: The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of Hon. Anthony Lockwood, R.N.
https://youtu.be/–LU0oqu148
April 15, 2021
Major (Retired) Hal Skaarup: Stanton Friedman UFO Expert
https://youtu.be/T76xGD4ep4s
May 20, 2021
New Brunswick and the Black Atlantic by Graham Nickerson
https://youtu.be/pmjrYZsIa44